Shelley Morrison (born Rachel Mitrani; October 26, 1936) is an Americanactress. Early in her career, she was sometimes credited as Rachel Domínguez. Morrison has been a theater and television actress since the early 1960s, predominantly as a character actress in ethnic roles. Her most recognizable role has been as the maidRosario Salazar in the NBC comedy television series Will & Grace, which she played from 1999 to 2006. She was a regular performer on the sitcom The Flying Nun playing Sister Sixto, a nun known mostly for mangling the English language; and she continued in television guest roles until securing a recurring role in the soap opera General Hospital in 1982.

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Morrison was born in New York City, the only daughter of Sephardic Jewish[1] parents, originally surnamed Mitrani.[2] She was raised in the Bronx, New York, and her first language was Spanish.[1] Her father, Maurice Morris, was a clothing manufacturer. Morrison moved to California with her parents in 1946.

From 1965 to 1967, she appeared four times as an American Indian, Linda Little Trees, in the NBCwesterntelevision seriesLaredo (in the episodes "Yahoo", "Jinx", "No Bugles, One Drum", and "Split the Difference.")[3] In 1967, she capitalized on her own experiences learning English to play the Puerto Rican nun, Sister Sixto, who had trouble with English in Sally Field's show The Flying Nun. She would keep this role until the show was cancelled in 1970.[4] Shelley Morrison also appeared in the 1997 Romantic Comedy "Fool Rush In" with Selma Hayek and Matthew Perry where she played Selma Hayek's Aunt Carmen.

Among approximately 25 film appearances and 200 television appearances, Morrison has portrayed a maid or housekeeper on 32 separate occasions. Morrison had just informed her agent not to offer her any more "maid parts" when the call came for Will & Grace. In 2017, NBC revived Will & Grace for a new series of episodes. On August 3, 2017, co-creator Max Mutchnick announced to reporters that Morrison had been asked to reprise her role as Salazar on the show, but that she had ultimately decided to retire completely from acting. Although her last official acting role was a voiceover in the 2012 animated film Foodfight!, her final appearance as an actress was the 2016 election-themed webisode of Will & Grace.[5]

Morrison lives with her husband of many years, Walter Domínguez, a Mexican-American, in a three-story apartment in Los Angeles – the same apartment in which her father had settled the family five decades earlier. Morrison and Dominguez adopted three sons and three daughters (adopted through a traditional Native American ceremony).